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The Academic Consequences of Early Childhood Problem Behaviors

Turney, Kristin; McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012

Non-cognitive skills in childhood and adolescence are associated with a host of outcomes in adulthood, including educational and occupational attainment. One explanation for these associations is that poor non-cognitive skills in early childhood interfere with the development of cognitive skills...

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Is a Minimum Wage an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2014

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...

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Education, Disappointment and Optimal Policy

Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - CESifo - 2014

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the ability distribution, may be provided by behavioural economics. We present a prototypical model where individuals who are potentially loss averse around their expected outcome...

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A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have caused atmospheric concentrations with no precedents in the last half a million years, inducing serious uncertainties about future climates and their effects on human welfare. Recent climate science supports the view that the climate...

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First-Year Maternal School Attendance and Children’s Cognitive Abilities at Age 5

Golann, Joanne W. - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2011

Although there has been extensive research on the effects of early maternal employment on children’s outcomes, there have been surprisingly few studies examining the relationship between early maternal school attendance and children’s well-being, despite the fact that a large percentage of...

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Promoting Rural Cooperatives in Developing Countries.

Braverman, A.; Guasch, J.L.; Huppi, M. - World Bank Group - 1991

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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty: A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N.; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - CESifo - 2013

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

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EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION TO ECONOMIC GROWTH, POVERTY, AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION - PAST EVIDENCE AND FURTHER ANALYSIS.

TILAK, J.B.G. - World Bank Group - 1989

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